Terese Jimenez continued...
Terese Jiménez is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Loyola Marymount University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Special Education, Disabilities and Risk Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before initiating her doctoral studies, Dr. Jiménez taught as a bilingual resource specialist in a predominantly low-income, Latino community. Currently her research interests include examining the development, application, and evaluation of problem-based pedagogy for professional education to improve instructional outcomes for students with disabilities, the early intervention and identification of children at-risk for reading difficulties, the investigation of early home literacy practices of Latino families, and the storybook reading practices of Latino families with children at risk for reading failure. Her dissertation research focused on investigating precursors to phonemic awareness skills in young English language learners. Dr. Jiménez is currently working on a project investigating a prevention/early intervention model for improving early literacy outcomes for young English learners. Her primary focus in this study is to critically examine teachers' responses during individualized or small group instruction.